Over the past few days, Navika Kumar of TV channel Times Now has been reading out private WhatsApp chats as alleged proof of a “Bollywood drug list” in reports emanating from the official investigation into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
After Rajput died by suicide on June 14, several investigative agencies were deployed to inquire into the allegation that he had been driven to take his own life – or, in legal terms, they were looking into possible “abetment to suicide”. As the actor’s death came to be used a political axe ahead of the Bihar elections, a dizzying series of twists resulted in the Narcotics Control Bureau on September 9 arresting Rajput’s girlfriend, Rhea Chakraborty, on drug charges.
The authorities claim that by purchasing small quantities of marijuana for Rajput, Chakraborty was a part of a network that merited further…